Science is so very cool. Building a machine to keep antiprotons in frozen suspension with superconductor magnetic fields at 8.5 Kelvin so you can transport them around to other research sites!? Sounds fun, let’s do it.

I had a model of the Yamamoto way back in the late 80’s. I had no idea the quality of the treasure I possessed.

Even a toga is an option. It’s not “normal” most places, but if you wear reasonably covering clothing and get your work done anyone worth working for won’t really care.

The law field is already facing this. They took on many specialized tools to replace clerks and people hired to search case law. The people normally hired to do that work were the future lawyers hired by those very firms. The total pool of candidates to hire from shrunk and now they’re having to fight over the reduced quality of candidates to keep many of the firms afloat.

Fewer trainees == fewer qualified hires in the future (duh).

It’s back to a Tragedy of the Commons all over again. With all firms hiring and training lots of young lawyers, there were plenty of people to hire in the future. Then, each firm stopped training as many themselves to save money and get a personal advantage, which leads to a smaller future pool to work with for everyone. Rinse, wash, repeat across the industry and now there’s a crisis.

You’re not the only one reporting those kinds of issues. My account was recent (last four months) too, but it was also with one of the biggest banks too. I could see how smaller banks would have more hurdles with how crazy the US regulations are getting. It places huge reporting burdens.

We had no trouble opening a bank account in Germany as a US citizen residing on a EU Blue Card visa.

I’m still running the last release of Hannah Montana Linux. Just waiting for something better to come out.

No. Full stop NO.

It’s my computer and my family. Stop trying to justify yet more tracking us in our own homes and on our own devices. Get fucked.

We have a serious trip back in October. Who knows what awaits us by then.

Or to translate from lying conservative sack of shit speak: “I’ll send the Brownshirts to build more terror among the populace and consolidate more power under my quasi-legal thugs. Unless you stop fighting back against the Brownshirts.”

I would sometimes shake things up and go mostly staff with a sling. The sling is hilariously entertaining on many fronts. It’s not really a big damage weapon, but with called shots life gets fun. Headshots? Yup. Knocking out guards? Indeed. Breaking that vial of potion to release the spell/fog/acid? Bingo.

Sneaking a ranged weapon into town? Have fun with that heavy crossbow, I’m just wrapping the sling around as a belt. Ammo? Sling stones are fabricated, but any old rock can improvise.

While the longbow / longsword ranger is just classicly awesome, a sling / (something) is worth giving a try.

Next up: atlatl barbarian!

Looks like there were 6 operational ones when Russia invaded. Two are confirmed shot down, two damaged. Add in this latest one hit.

They’re about $300mil to build and Russia has trouble getting the parts. Every A-50 lost is a huge win for Ukraine.

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This isn’t the first time something like this happened with Strava and its ilk.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracking-app-gives-away-location-of-secret-us-army-bases

InfoSec is very difficult with unsecured devices collecting local data and sending it to publicly accessible locations.

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These Republicans are Nazis. Nazis have a basic plank of calling for the death of groups of people based upon race, ethnicity, birth defects, and even world views (Communists, Atheists).

The university has every right to protect the other students at the university from genocidal maniacs. It’s not an issue of Tolerance. These Nazis broke the social contract of a pluralistic society so they’re no longer protected by the contract.

The history of the Fehrensehturm is fascinating. The guy who got it built basically lied and embezzled government money to make it happen.

He also wanted to surround the Alexanderplatz park with Commie Block housing. They only got two of the buildings built (fortunately). His full plan included tearing down the Berlin Cathedral, Marienkirche Cathedral, and the Humboldt Forum. Those are all Berlin icons today.

Just the 20khz whine that’s always there.

One to change it and seven to file the paperwork.

I visited a museum today. They had audio guides available. I found they had a guide in a “easy” version of German.

I am so happy they had the easy (leicht Sprache) guide. I managed to understand about half of the sentences and got some nice in-context listening practice.

I also started listening to some B1 German YouTube conversational videos and I’m doing okay at times.

I’ve also got a Scratch Programming book in German. It’s written to elementary school level and it’s great for simple technical language, which is a speciality that I’m going to need soon. Very nice stuff to work with.